Sometimes, file permissions go bad and leave ‘locked’ or ‘used’ files behind. If this happens to your DEVONthink Pro database, the application will continue to claim that the database is in use. If you are savvy with file permissions, use either the Finder’s Info panel or the Terminal to correct them. Make sure to adjust the permissions of all files in the package. A trick that also seems to work in some cases is to duplicate the database in the Finder and...

Gordon Meyer talks on O’Reilly Mac Dev Center about how he managed to make his office ‘paperless’ — using, of course, DEVONthink Pro as well as some other pieces of software and the Fujitsu Scansnap. Read about Gordon’s experiences here.

Harry Babad of MacCompanion has also posted a great review of DEVONthink Pro Office. Harry used our lower-end notebook application DEVONnote for a while and then upgraded. Read here what he found out.

While Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard brings integrated screen sharing based on VNC, Desktop Transporter still has a number of advantages over Apple’s own solution, among others Wake-on-LAN, fully automatic clipboard synchronization, full screen mode, and proper bandwidth statistics. In addition, it features a convenient menu extra and browser window that gives a quick overview over all available shared screens on the network. Now, the current version 2.5 of Desktop Transporter has an issue in Leopard that causes the background...

Greg Mulhauser from counsellingresource.com has recently written an extensive review of DEVONthink Pro Office. He talks about what you can do with DEVONthink, gives tips on integrating it into your workflow, but also shares his thoughts on DEVONthink’s shortcomings. Thank you, Greg! Click here to read the full review.